Links, 5/20

An excellent article that suggests our very notion of love has been marketed to us. Exactly why does an 8 year old need to know about relationships and break-ups? And what does it say about us that unchecked cliches make money over and over?

This isn’t the greatest article, but the idea of “message discipline” makes my heart sink, esp. when one of the arguments of this blog is that a better politics comes from a people that can disagree articulately and thoughtfully.

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Re: LOLspeak in essays. Sad to say, I’ve seen it, along with other, “interesting” turns of phrase…for example:

* pysciological (physiological)* lepraucy (what Jesus apparently cured in some poor folk)* “Without research we would still be drilling holes in ppls heads to let the demons out…” (Wow.)* “The abnormal people are people too…” (Dear god, I want that in a tattoo)

The day that someone used the word “poop” repeatedly in an essay on Freud, though, was the crowning achievement.

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Student of Political Philosophy. Writes too much, badly needs an editor. Everything on this blog will eventually be revised or eliminated. The hope of this blog is to present you varied, thoughtful works, ones not typically engaged online. Contact me.

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